Ubiquidade Quotes & Sayings

In the way it transforms ideas and beliefs, successful design is like alchemy: it fuses together disparate ideas from different origins, so that the form of the completed product seems to embody only a single idea, which comes across as so familiar that we find ourselves supposing it to be exactly what we ourselves had always thought. — Adrian Forty

Apocalypse Hal was on the corner by the Laundromat. Hal was a neighborhood street preacher who worked at the fish and crab place next door. He wore a sandwich board sign of Bible verses and shouted angry things at passersby like "The end times are near" and "Seafood sampler $5.99." Now his sign just read "TOLD YOU SO," and he looked more anxious than angry. — Adam Rex

Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you ... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival. — Sara Genn

Stability means respecting precedents. — Arlen Specter

[ ... ] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [ ... ] — Reza Aslan

I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book.
"Very nutritious," I smiled.
"You've got your oats. You've got your meal. You've got your cream. It's a fuckin' food pyramid. — John Green

It's that old, old fear thing again. Why does it creep along with us, attached to us like our shadow? Why can't it just leave us alone? Why can't we tell each other what we think and what we feel? — Joel Mark Harris

Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism that sinks its roots into an awareness of our freedom, and the sure knowledge of the power of grace. It is an optimism that leads us to make demands on ourselves, to struggle to respond at every moment to God's call. — Josemaria Escriva

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work. — Jeff Fahey

Create Your Own Personal Roadmap - For Your Life! — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin

Dignity is the reward of obeying your heart. — Wes Fesler

Sometimes there is no budging the distance between what we imagine we are prepared for and what we must discover on our own. — Inara Verzemnieks